Human Resource Management
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The Department of Management Human Resource Management Literature Review OH&S: Importance of OH&S planning Name: Raddie Nip Student No: 18852114 Lecturer: Dr Susan Mayson Due date: 13 - 4 - 2005 Word count: 1082 Introduction Occupational health and safety has become a famous and an important issue in workplace and society. When people are questioned what they think about OH&S, most people who joined the labour force will response as, "It is important to secure my safety in workplace", while people not within the labour force will answer as "What is it?" or "is it important?". Therefore, this literature review will not just focus on practitioners' and researchers' view in the importance of OH&S planning in workplace and society, but also the usefulness of the knowledge from OH&S planning to people and to organizations. What is OH&S? Historically (pre-1970s) the focus of OHS legislation was prescriptive. Comply or be punished (Pearn, 2003). In 1972...


